Terms+and+Conditions

By accessing this website or downloading or using any content from it, you agree to these legally binding terms and conditions. If you don’t accept all these terms, please do not access or use this site.
 * Terms of use of this website**

The material on this website - including pages, documents, graphics, audio, and video - is protected by copyright under the copyright laws of New Zealand and, through international treaties, other countries.
 * Copyright**


 * Note:** In submitting content to this wiki, you agree that the Ministry of Education/Learning Media may make that content available to others pursuant to the terms of the [|Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 License].

Please only submit content that you write yourself or that is in the public domain. Learn more about our open content policy.

You must obtain the prior permission of the relevant owner if you wish to use any material on this site that is the property of a third party. This includes material on websites you access via links from this site.
 * For material with third-party copyright**

This site contains information and content obtained from within the New Zealand Ministry of Education, and from sources commissioned by the Ministry, and is subject to change without notice. The Ministry endeavours to the best of its ability to ensure that the information is true, accurate, and current. However, the Ministry does not accept any liability for the accuracy of this information, for any content on the site or for the results or consequences of you using any such information or content. To the extent permitted by law, the Ministry excludes all warranties, representations, and guarantees regarding this website and the content of it.
 * Disclaimer**

The Ministry of Education does not accept any liability for the accuracy or content of information on this website belonging to third parties, nor for the accuracy or content of any third-party website that you may access via a hyperlink from this site. Links to other websites from this one should not be taken as endorsement of those sites or of products offered on those sites. When visiting other websites, please refer to the conditions of use and copyright policies of those sites.
 * Links to third-party websites**

You are welcome to create a hyperlink to this site from another website. However, this link must not be presented on your site in any context that implies that this website has an association with your site, or endorses your site or product. The Ministry of Education logo may not be used on your site without the Ministry’s permission.
 * Links from other sites to this one**

If you send us personal information, we will only use this personal information for the purpose for which it was provided or for a purpose required or permitted by the Privacy Act 1993 or otherwise required or permitted by law. We will keep any personal information you provide to us secure and will not disclose it to any other parties without your prior consent or as required or permitted by the Privacy Act 1993 or otherwise required or permitted by law. If you want to check personal information that we hold, please write to: The Privacy Officer Ministry of Education PO Box 1666 Thorndon Wellington. For more information on privacy, please visit the Privacy Commissioner's website.
 * Privacy statement**

You are responsible for any damage you cause to this website or to any of the Ministry’s websites, electronic facilities, or data. We provide security to protect this website and our online services. You are responsible for ensuring that your own computer is secure, including taking all reasonable steps to: • prevent someone misusing or getting unauthorised access to your computer system or to this website or our online services, and • ensure your computer system and data are free of computer viruses and all other forms of corruption. Users of this website assume all risks associated with any transfer of data or information to the Ministry, and with any other use of this website. We are not liable for any damage arising from interception, loss, theft, other action or difficulty in transmitting information to us. The Ministry will not be responsible in any manner for direct, indirect, special, or consequential loss caused in any way as a result of the use of its online services, or this website.
 * Security and damage**

Browser cookies are small files that are sent by a website and stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies are used by this website to provide the Ministry of Education with information about site usage and to improve the service we offer to site visitors. The data is collected and aggregated for the Ministry of Education by Nielsen NetRatings, a measurement and research company. You can find out about Nielsen NetRatings' privacy policy in its privacy statement. Cookies from this site are not used to gather or allow the gathering of any personally identifiable information and are not used to track individual user activity around this site or around the Internet. You may manually disable cookies at any time - check your browser’s “Help” to find out how. This will not affect your ability to view the site.
 * Cookies**

Publication of email addresses on this site should not be taken as deemed consent to receiving unsolicited email. Persons or organisations wishing to send email material to individuals or organisations whose email addresses appear on this website must comply with the requirements of the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007 (Department of Internal Affairs’ website). The Ministry may change these terms of use at any time by posting changes online. You are responsible for reviewing the amended terms of use, and your continued use of this website constitutes your agreement to the amended terms of use. This website and your use of it is governed by New Zealand law and the Courts of New Zealand have non- exclusive jurisdiction.
 * Unsolicited email**